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KISS OF LIFE (originally entitled HELEN
OF PECKHAM) marks the debut feature
of Emily Young, an exciting young British
talent.
A Lodz Film School graduate, Emily's pre-
vious short film, 'Second Hand', won the
Cinéfoundation prize at the Cannes Film
Festival in 1999.
KISS OF LIFE is a deeply moving journey
into the heart of a family.
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Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkunaite, best known for her role in 'Burnt by the Sun', stars
as Helen, a London housewife barely coping with her two children and with her ageing father
(David Warner) while her husband, John (Peter Mullan), an aid-worker in Bosnia is away from
home.Taking the children to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. Many miles away,
in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. Helen herself, caught in
limbo between life and death, watches over her family who struggle to come to terms with the
loss of their mother and the continuing absence of their father. John has to travel home through
dangerous terrain whilst Helen journeys through the space between life and death, freed only
when she and her husband are able to reconcile their differences and experience the full
meaning of their love for one another.
KISS OF LIFE is dedicated to the memory of Katrin Cartlidge, who was to have played the leading
role of the mother but who died tragically just before filming began.
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